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100 1 _aVeresaev, V. V.
_q(Vikentiĭ Vikentʹevich),
_d1867-1945
240 1 0 _aBez dorogi. Finnish
245 1 0 _aIlman tietä
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTranslation of: Без дороги (Bez dorogi).
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-29
508 _aJuhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen
520 _a"Ilman tietä" by V. V. Veresaev is a novel written in the late 19th century. It presents the diary of a disillusioned Russian zemstvo doctor who searches for meaning amid generational upheaval, growing social distrust, and a looming cholera epidemic; his strained exchanges with the earnest Natasha and his frontline medical work frame the struggle between ideals and harsh reality. The focus is psychological and social: conscience versus fatigue, duty versus fear, and the fragile bond between educated reformers and the people they hope to serve. At the start of the novel, the doctor returns to a country estate and reflects on three bleak years of inner paralysis, then tries to rest, even as Natasha presses him for a guiding purpose he cannot honestly give. News of cholera draws him to a provincial city, where warnings of anti-doctor violence clash with his resolve. After a charged night—music, a moonlit boat, and his confession that he has “no road”—Natasha recoils, though she later gives him an ardent farewell before he departs. In Slesarsk’s Tshemerovka (Saretshje), he sets up a cholera barrack with a phlegmatic feldsher, meets sullen hostility, rumors, and threats, and lies awake fearing a night attack. The first confirmed case (a furniture maker, Tsherkasov) forces him to win trust by sharing water from the patient’s cup; he saves the man but cannot compel the family to allow disinfection, a failure that gnaws at him. As more mild cases appear, he speaks with everyone, keeps the ward open to visitors, and slowly gains a toehold against panic and suspicion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kustantaja tuntematon, 1903
653 _aPhysicians -- Fiction
653 _aDiary fiction
653 _aCholera -- Fiction
653 _aRussian fiction -- Translations into Finnish
653 _aEpidemics -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78574
999 _c119292
_d119292